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Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Scott Conkright

38 episodes

2 days ago

Send us a text What if your body makes the first move and your mind rushes in to explain it after? We open chapter one of The Weather Within and unpack a practical, humane map for navigating intense moments by separating core feelings from the emotions we build on top of them. Instead of wrestling storms, we learn to read them: how the nervous system sets our capacity, why hunger and sleep can tip us into reactivity, and where that small but powerful pause lives between sensation and story. ...

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Send us a text What if your body makes the first move and your mind rushes in to explain it after? We open chapter one of The Weather Within and unpack a practical, humane map for navigating intense moments by separating core feelings from the emotions we build on top of them. Instead of wrestling storms, we learn to read them: how the nervous system sets our capacity, why hunger and sleep can tip us into reactivity, and where that small but powerful pause lives between sensation and story. ...

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Episodes (20/38)

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

The Quiet Science of Feeling: How Peace and Happiness Share One Nervous System

Send us a text What if peace and happiness aren’t opposites, but two tempos of the same life force? We follow that question from the body’s first language—movement and breath—into the quiet work of integration, where your nervous system learns to trust its own rhythm again. Along the way, we introduce “ladolescence,” a stage beyond performance where joy becomes contribution, peace becomes belonging, and your days feel less like moods to manage and more like music to conduct. We begin with th...

2 weeks ago

18 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

From Draining to Energizing.. A Practical Guide to Conscious Relationships: Re-Authoring Your Life Story Part 4

Send us a text What if your body remembers what your mind can’t explain—and those memories quietly script your relationships? We dive into how early imprints shape your nervous system and why real change happens through connection, not just insight. From practical tools you can use today to nuanced stories that mirror real life, this episode is a guide to consciously casting the people in your life so your relationships fuel, not drain, your growth. We start with a clear map: the Relationshi...

3 weeks ago

42 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Rewriting Your Relationship with Money.. From Scarcity to Abundance: Re-Authoring Your Life Story Part 3

Send us a text What shapes your financial decisions more deeply than budgeting apps or investment strategies? Your emotional money story – the unconscious narrative inherited from family, culture, and early experiences that dictates not just how you spend, but how you value yourself. Money isn't merely currency; it's an affective object charged with feelings of security, freedom, shame, and pride. When people say they don't have "enough," they often mean "I don't feel like I'm enough." This ...

1 month ago

35 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Script Busting: Why "It Is What It Is" Is Killing Your Soul: Re-Authoring Your Life Story Part 2

Send us a text What secrets might your body be keeping from your conscious mind? Dr. Scott Conkright takes us on a profound journey exploring how our earliest relationships and experiences become encoded in our nervous systems, creating patterns that shape our lives in ways our rational minds can't fully access. At the heart of this exploration lies our relationship with meaning itself. The stories we tell about why we're here aren't abstract philosophical concepts but practical frameworks t...

1 month ago

16 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

The Four Pillars of Authentic Living: Re-Authoring Your Life Story Part 1

Send us a text What if your body is holding onto emotional memories that your conscious mind can't access? This provocative question opens a fascinating exploration into how our earliest relationships shape not just our memories, but our very nervous systems. Dr. Scott Conkright takes us on a journey through what he calls the "four foundational relationships" that shape our lives, cleverly paralleling them with the filmmaking process. You are simultaneously the lead actor, scriptwriter, prod...

1 month ago

23 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Completing Your Interrupted Stories of Trauma: Cats, Dogs, and Humans Part 5

Send us a text What happens when your body remembers what your mind has forgotten? In this deeply resonant exploration, Dr. Scott Conkright unveils the powerful concept of narrative repair—the process through which we heal not by forgetting our trauma, but by returning to it with enough safety to complete the stories that were interrupted. Trauma doesn't just live in our thoughts. It resides in our posture, our breath, our automatic responses to connection and vulnerability. These embodied p...

1 month ago

16 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Cats, Dogs and Humans: Part 4 - Trauma Whisperer: When Your Body Remembers What You Can't

Send us a text Your body whispers truths your mind has yet to comprehend. The nervous system, with its intricate web of responses, stores experiences that predate our ability to form words—carrying forward relationships, traumas, and joys long after conscious memory has faded. Dr. Scott Conkright takes us on a profound journey through the landscape of emotional integration. We begin by exploring how adulthood marks a pivotal shift from mere emotional reaction to reflection. This threshold is...

2 months ago

14 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Cats, Dogs and Humans Part 3: How Adolescence Transforms Feeling into Identity

Send us a text Have you ever wondered how we transform from reactive infants into reflective adults capable of emotional sophistication? This fascinating journey through human emotional development reveals the remarkable neurobiological revolution that reshapes our inner landscape. Starting as creatures of pure reflex, our earliest emotional systems function like uncalibrated fire alarms—all intensity with little modulation. The infant experiences the world through immediate, unfiltered reac...

2 months ago

20 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Cats, Dogs and Humans: Part 2

Send us a text Your body remembers what your mind may never have known. Deep within muscle and tissue, in the rhythm of your breath and the tension in your shoulders, lies a somatic record of your earliest relationships—created long before you had words to describe them. This profound exploration of embodied memory reveals how our nervous systems develop in relationship with others. From our first moments, our bodies are recording not just what happens, but what to expect. A warm smile becom...

2 months ago

15 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Cats, Dogs, and Humans Part 1: How Pure Feeling Shapes Us Before We Can Think or Speak

Send us a text What if everything you thought you knew about emotions was backwards? Our journey begins with a startling truth: before you could think, speak, or even know who you were, you existed as a creature of pure affect. We dive deep into the fascinating world of pre-cognitive emotional experience, exploring how babies communicate through their first language—the language of feeling expressed through their bodies. We examine the profound implications of being born with an underdevelop...

2 months ago

24 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Navigating Your Emotional Operating System: Core Affects and the Four Pillars of Happiness

Send us a text What if your emotions weren't just random feelings but actually sophisticated firmware—hardwired systems constantly running in your brain's background? This groundbreaking idea forms the foundation of our deep dive into affect theory and its profound implications for authentic happiness. Your emotional operating system isn't infinitely variable. We're all born with nine specific core affects—biological responses that tag experiences as important, dangerous, pleasurable or soci...

3 months ago

17 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

GroupCast #01: What Lies Behind Door Number Three?

Send us a text What drives those who are never quite satisfied, always seeking the next challenge or idea? The concept of "divine discontentment" offers a fascinating lens to understand this psychological phenomenon. Drawing from the mythological figure Theseus, who was cursed/blessed by the gods with an insatiable curiosity, this exploration reveals how certain personalities thrive on constant questioning and learning. At its core, divine discontentment isn't a flaw but a fundamental orient...

4 months ago

1 hour 8 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Your Body Knows What Your Mind Doesn't: Decoding Life's Sacred Signals

Send us a text That persistent ache when everything looks perfect on paper but something still feels missing – it's not ingratitude or failure. It's what I call divine discontentment, a profound developmental signal that your current reality has become too small for your emerging self. Through the story of Patricia, a successful CEO wrestling with this very phenomenon, we explore how this sacred ache serves as a compass pointing toward growth and greater meaning. Drawing on affect theory and...

4 months ago

48 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

The Great Age Revolution: Why Everything You Think About Aging Is Wrong

Send us a text A sleepless night in Washington DC with an aching back became the catalyst for a profound realization: everything we believe about aging might be wrong. As I lay there wrestling with physical discomfort and society's negative scripts about getting older, I experienced a moment of clarity that would transform not just my own perspective, but potentially our collective understanding of adult development. From this awakening emerged the concept of Latalescence – a revolutionary f...

4 months ago

34 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Your Body Speaks Louder Than Your Words in Relationships

Send us a text Beneath the words we exchange in relationships lies a hidden language—a rhythmic dance between nervous systems that shapes our connections more powerfully than what we say. This episode ventures into the fascinating world of Dynamic Vitality Affects (DVAs), the subtle patterns of timing, pacing, and movement that determine whether we feel safe, connected, or understood with our partners. Have you ever felt instantly disconnected from someone without knowing why? Noticed that c...

5 months ago

53 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Part 4: Before Emotion: Reclaiming the Body's First Language of Affect

Send us a text What if the key to understanding your emotions lies in sensations you felt before you even had words? Long before we develop language, our bodies speak through "affects" – primal, biological signals that form the foundation of our emotional lives. Imagine a world where you can recognize these signals in yourself and others, where you understand that anger isn't just "anger" but a complex symphony of sensation, memory, and meaning. This understanding transforms how you relate t...

6 months ago

45 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Part 3. How Love is Built: Cordelia's First Three Years

Send us a text Your first relationships weren't just emotionally significant—they literally wired your brain. Long before you could speak, think, or remember, your nervous system was absorbing profound lessons about connection through the silent language of touch, gaze, rhythm, and response. This fascinating journey through attachment theory reveals how our earliest relationships architect our nervous systems, creating patterns that continue to influence our adult connections. Through the me...

6 months ago

36 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Part 2. Baby Cordelia: How a Three-Month-Old Forms Her World

Send us a text What happens in the mind of a three-month-old baby? Far more than we once believed. As Cordelia reaches her third and fourth months of life, her world transforms from a blur into a fascinating landscape of relationships, expectations, and embodied scripts that will shape her future. Dr. Scott Conkright guides us through the remarkable developmental leaps happening in these crucial months. Cordelia's visual system sharpens dramatically as she begins tracking objects and making ...

6 months ago

23 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

The Inner Life of Your Child: How Early Emotions Shape a Lifetime

Send us a text We explore how our emotional lives are shaped from birth through the story of Cordelia, examining how feelings become emotions and how unconscious patterns develop. Understanding these early formations is the key to rewriting our emotional scripts and experiencing more meaningful happiness. • Nine innate affects (interest-excitement, enjoyment-joy, distress-anguish, shame-humiliation, fear-terror, surprise-startle, anger-rage, disgust, dissmell) form the basis of all emotions ...

6 months ago

36 minutes

Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright

Ep. 11- Affects and Emotions: A Grand Chat with the Legendary Robert Spano

Send us a text What if the very emotion that often holds us back could actually be a catalyst for growth? Join us on the Meaningful Happiness podcast as we sit down with Robert Spano, a distinguished conductor and composer, to unravel the complexities of shame in the realms of music and beyond. Through a fascinating exploration of Tompkins' theories, Robert shares personal anecdotes that reveal how shame can influence creativity and joy within the performing arts. We promise you'll gain a fre...

10 months ago

1 hour 15 minutes